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...President's year-old Commission on the Health Needs of the Nation will hand its report to Harry Truman next week, Revealing this. Chairman Paul Magnuson tipped the commission's hand: instead of recommending a compulsory national health service, it will advocate all-out expansion of voluntary prepayment health plans, with health centers (run by local doctors) dotting the country...
Organized medicine snorted "politics" when Harry Truman set up his Commission on the Health Needs of the Nation last winter, and it looked askance at Wisconsin's Surgeon Paul B. Magnuson, member in good standing of the American Medical Association, for agreeing to serve as the commission's chairman. Last week Dr. Magnuson offered his critics some advice. When he took the job, said Magnuson, he was "unalterably opposed to compulsory national health insurance"; after taking 8,000 pages of evidence, he was of the same opinion still. But, he told the District of Columbia Medical Society...
Added Dr. Magnuson: he hopes to see his views printed soon in the A.M.A. Journal, where they will reach some of the hard cases he is talking...
...Georgia's George, Texas' Connally and Washington's Magnuson, Democrats; Washington's Cain, Illinois' Dirksen and Idaho's Welker, Republicans...
...political propaganda, designed to influence legislation and the outcome of the 1952 election." Wisconsin's Dr. Gunnar Gundersen, an A.M.A. trustee who had halfway accepted a bid to serve on the commission, backed out hastily, saying it was designed "as an instrument of practical politics ... a masquerade." Dr. Magnuson called his commission together in Washington this week to begin figuring out how to boost the supply of doctors, dentists and nurses and spread them more evenly across the land; to set up more local public-health units; to speed medical research; to minister to the chronically...